How to ride your bike all winter Advice from a fellow who does.

It is really cold out there, and in many places in the continental U.S., the winter biking season has begun. I live in Toronto, and the city doesn't make it easy for winter bikers. The bike lanes become snow lanes, and where they run parallel to parking, the cars now fill the bike lane completely. There is no buffer like they have in New York City. It isn't like Copenhagen or Sweden, where they have special ploughs designed for the bike lanes and do them early. Last year Toronto promised to clear the bike lanes, but the way they are designed it's almost impossible. The city of Boulder, Colo., goes all out to make winter biking safe and easy. Multi-use paths in the city of Boulder are maintained to high-level transportation standards. Separate snow removal crews begin plowing the city's multi-use paths at exactly the same time that other crews are plowing city streets. When...